Comparison

Run Plan vs RUNUP

Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.

Head to head
About

Run Plan

This app offers personalized running training plans from 5K to marathon, designed for Apple Watch. It features guided workouts, smart pace adjustments, and detailed progress tracking, all while prioritizing user privacy with local data storage.

Highlights
  • Personalized training plans (5K to Marathon)
  • Apple Watch-first experience
  • Guided interval workouts
  • Smart pace recalibration
  • Detailed progress analytics
  • Flexible rescheduling
  • Privacy-first local data storage
Features
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Run Plan is the Apple Watch–first training planner with no account, no ads, and no subscription. Train for 5K, 10K, half marathon, or the full 42.2K with personalized plans that fit your schedule. Your training data stays in Apple Health, on your device. BUILT FOR APPLE WATCH Plan from your iPhone, run from your wrist. Start workouts, follow guided intervals, or go for a spontaneous run — all directly from your Apple Watch. No phone needed on the run. TRAIN AT THE RIGHT INTENSITY Every workout is guided by heart rate zones or target pace, so you always run at the right effort. Easy runs stay easy. Threshold runs hit their targets. Intervals are timed and zoned. No guesswork — and pacing that guards you against overtraining. PLANS THAT FIT YOUR LIFE Pick your goal, your race date, and your weekly schedule. Get a clear day-by-day plan with phases that build base, sharpen speed, and peak you for race day. Life happens? Move runs around your week with one tap. Your calendar always shows exactly what's next. Missed a few weeks or crushed a time trial? Run Plan can smartly recalibrate your target paces to match your current fitness level — but you always preview and approve every change. TRACK YOUR PROGRESS Track your fitness trend, training load, and pace dynamics as you train. The Progress view provides deep analytics to help you balance effort and recovery, and compares your planned vs. actual weekly volume. Plus, stay on top of your schedule with Home Screen widgets that show today's run and your week at a glance. PLANS FOR EVERY LEVEL • 5K — train for your first race or a faster time • 10K — build endurance and speed • Half marathon — go further, train smarter • Marathon — the full 42.2K, from first long run to finish line • Pro plans — Half Pro (Sub-1H30) and Marathon Pro (Sub-3H) with 6-day weeks • VO2 Maxxing — an 8-week aerobic-power block to grow your engine • Maintenance & Recovery — stay race-fit between goals, or ease back after a big race WHAT'S INCLUDED • Personalized training plans from 5K to marathon, plus Pro-level racing plans • Heart-rate-zone or target-pace training (your choice) • Apple Watch-first experience — start, follow, finish from your wrist • Live interval coaching with zone targets, splits, and timed recoveries • Smart recalibration to adjust paces based on your current fitness • Progress view with deep analytics, pace trends, and planned vs. actual weekly volume • Planned vs. actual pace for every completed interval • Detailed run stats — pace, splits, distance, heart rate • Phase-based periodization (base / speed / peak / taper) • Flexible rescheduling — move runs whenever life happens • Clean calendar view of your training • Hill repeats, threshold runs, intervals, long runs, strides • Home Screen widgets for quick access to your daily run • Full privacy — training data stored locally via Apple HealthKit • No GPS data leaves your device PRIVACY-FIRST Your training data lives in Apple Health on your device. Your heart rate, your splits, your routes — we never see them, and your GPS data never leaves your device. The app collects only anonymous usage statistics and crash reports, so we can keep making Run Plan better. BUILT FOR RUNNERS No account. No ads. No subscription nags. No social feed. No streak guilt. Just a quiet, well-designed running coach in your pocket and on your wrist. Whether you're starting your first 5K or chasing a marathon finish line — Run Plan gives you the structure to get there.

About

RUNUP

Features
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Track your runs, find your friends, follow your progress — free, with no time limit. And when you want a real plan, RUNUP builds it around your goal and reshapes it after every run based on how you actually felt. FREE, FOREVER GPS tracking for every run: distance, pace, route, elevation, heart rate. Your full history and your stats. Today's three goals and your streak. Your weekly recap. Apple Health, Apple Watch, widgets and the Lock Screen. And the whole Club: leaderboards, challenges, activity feed, friends, shared routes. No countdown, no ads. RUNUP PLUS — 7 DAYS FREE The periodised plan and its adaptation, the coach by text and by voice, race-day preparation, your predicted times and your training load. A REAL COACH, NOT A CHATBOT — RUNUP PLUS A personal coach who knows your goal, your history and how today is going. Ask a question before a session, get nutrition advice, or talk it through after a run that hurt. Mid-run you can even talk to it: press, ask out loud, hear the answer in your headphones. A PLAN THAT LIVES WITH YOU — RUNUP PLUS After every run, rate how hard it felt (RPE) — the plan adjusts the difficulty of the weeks ahead. Base, specific, taper: a genuinely periodised plan built around your race date, 4 to 20 weeks depending on how long you have. With no race date (getting faster, losing weight, easing back in, staying fit), it runs continuously with built-in cutback weeks. Short night, or yesterday's session too brutal? Today's session eases off on its own. HYROX, ULTRA, TRIATHLON — RUNUP PLUS Three full preparations, not variations on the running plan. HYROX: the eight stations and their transitions. Ultra: elevation, fast hiking, running at night. Triathlon: swimming, cycling and brick sessions, from sprint to long distance. LIVE RUN TRACKING Real-time map and route, pace, heart rate, calories. Every run is saved to Apple Health, exports as GPX, and shares as a card with your route on it. APPLE WATCH Start a run from your watch and leave your iPhone at home: wrist heart rate, live distance and calories. Every run you finish on your wrist comes back to the phone with its debrief. With RUNUP Plus, today's session is pushed to the watch. STATS THAT ACTUALLY MEAN SOMETHING Pace trend, personal records, a map of every route you've run, and shoe mileage tracking. With RUNUP Plus: finish-time predictions for 5K, 10K, half and marathon, and eight weeks of training load. WHERE TO RUN WHEN YOU DON'T KNOW THE PLACE New city, no idea where to run? The map shows routes published by other runners around you, with distance, elevation and often a photo of the spot. Filter by length, keep the ones you like, open the start in Maps. Sharing your own runs takes two taps — and the first and last 300 metres are stripped before anything is sent, so nobody sees where you set off from or came home to. CLUB & COMMUNITY Weekly and all-time leaderboards, club challenges, group runs, an activity feed and badges. And if you'd rather follow a handful of people than a whole club, a friends feed does exactly that. THE END OF A PLAN ISN'T THE END — RUNUP PLUS When your plan finishes: a guided recovery block, then a new goal or free-run mode with no fixed plan at all. Connecting Apple Health is optional but recommended for a more accurate daily readiness score. The Club needs an account; everything else works without one. RUNUP PLUS SUBSCRIPTION RUNUP works without a subscription, with no time limit. RUNUP Plus unlocks the plan and the coach, after a 7-day free trial. • Monthly — €6.99 per month • Yearly — €39.99 per year (€3.33 per month) Auto-renewing, cancellable at any time from your Apple account settings. Terms of Use: https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/ Privacy Policy: https://hicsuntco.github.io/RUNUP/privacy.html

Screenshots

Run Plan4 screens
RUNUP4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is in-app purchases: Run Plan at none against RUNUP's 2. RUNUP's advantage is update cadence (every 3 days vs monthly). On price, ads, device support and iOS requirement there is nothing between them.

Scored on Price · Rating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings · Update frequency · Ads · In-app purchases · Monetization · Best chart rank · Devices · Requires iOS

CostPrice · In-app purchases · Ads · Monetization

Both are free to download. RUNUP sells 2 in-app purchases, starting at $5.99 per month. Run Plan asks for nothing beyond the download.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Run Plan ships an update monthly, RUNUP every 3 days. The most recent releases landed on October 28, 2026 and October 23, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard2 real differences · 7 level
Run Plan versus RUNUP: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterRun PlanRUNUP
PriceFreeFree
Rating5.0 (1 ratings) — better—
Number of ratings1 — better—
Update frequencyMonthlyEvery 3 days — better
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNo — betterYes
MonetizationFree—
DevicesiPhone, Apple WatchiPhone, iPad, Apple Watch — better
Requires iOS17.517.0 — better
Further details — not scored
Size25 MB11 MB
Age rating17+4+
DeveloperEkaterina Sergeevna RoyCharlotte Grude

In-app purchases

None

Run Plan

No in-app purchases

2 purchases

RUNUP

Subscriptions2
  • RUNUP Plus Monthly$5.991 Month
  • RUNUP Plus Yearly$34.991 Year

Questions

Is Run Plan free?
Run Plan is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is RUNUP free?
RUNUP is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Do Run Plan or RUNUP have ads?
Neither Run Plan nor RUNUP shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Run Plan or RUNUP?
Run Plan ships an update monthly, and RUNUP every 3 days. Most recently, Run Plan was updated on October 28, 2026 and RUNUP on October 23, 2026.

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